" "What original notions you clever men have!" said Rosamond, dimpling with more thorough laughter than usual at this humorous incongruity.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But the costly instruments of the theatre, flutes, and enormous lyres, and hydraulic organs, are constructed for their use; and the harmony of vocal and instrumental music is incessantly repeated in the palaces of Rome.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Now I quite agree that the obvious interpretation of this passage is that universally accepted, that Hamlet, like Horatio, was at Wittenberg when his father died; and I do not say that it is wrong.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

22. Make swift appeal to your own ruling part, to that of the Universe, and to his who has offended you.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

He supported this unequal association till his influence was fortified by popular esteem.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

These two words contain the history of the universe, all the history of worlds, all that is, all!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The natives although they possessed large quantities of this blubber and oil were so penurious that they disposed of it with great reluctance and in small quantities only; insomuch that the utmost exertions of Capt. C. and the whole party aided by the little stock of merchandize he had taken with him and some small articles which the men had, were not able to procure more blubber than about 300 lb. and a few gallons of the oil; this they have brought with them, and small as the store is, we prize it highly, and thank providence for directing the whale to us, and think him much more kind to us than he was jonah, having sent this monster to be swallowed by us in stead of swallowing of us as jona's did.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

They were awake now, and the hour drew nigh At which our food used to be brought to us, And through his dream was each one apprehensive;
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

In addition to the opinion he entertained that his father was to a degree culpable of neglect towards us, and that he was bound to every possible reparation, he was pleased to say that under all my ruggedness there glimmered forth an elevation of spirit, which could be distinguished from mere animal courage, and that I inherited a similarity of countenance to my father, which gave proof that all his virtues and talents had not died with him.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He bade her good-bye more tenderly than usual, as though he knew that he would never see her again, and the next morning Bridetown heard that the old man had died in his sleep.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

These relations furnish me with a sort of "abstract of the times," and mark the character of the government better than circumstances of more apparent consequence; for what are battles, sieges, and political machinations, but as they ultimately affect the happiness of society?
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

In 1772 he attached for a debt the house of Dr. Alexander Campbell and the people of Oxford took umbrage, and threatened him with violence.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

The druggist’s wife crunched them up as they had done—heroically, despite her wretched teeth.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

He must have attributed the ungenial atmosphere to his own lateness--it was half-past eight--for he made penitent apology to Mrs. Ware.
— from Viviette by William John Locke

On the ground-floor the soldiers were lodged; on the midmost were the state and family apartments, while the uppermost accommodated the household servants and attendants.
— from One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Emily Sarah Holt

He settled himself in a corner, paying the utmost attention to his comfort, screwed a monocle in his eye and spread a copy of The Pink ’ Un before him.
— from Slaves of Freedom by Coningsby Dawson

The best years of his early life, from fifteen to twenty-three, he spent here: the four years of college,—a fifth year which he wisely, though unusually, added to his course, for the perfecting of his classical and general studies,—and the three years of his studies in the Law School.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Household Management teaches us about the home .
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management by Ontario. Department of Education